M 4.7 in Afghanistan on 14 Dec 2017 23:48 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1128697
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 197.36 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.6197 , 70.8552
Event Date: 14 Dec 2017 23:48 UTC
15 Dec 2017 04:18 Local
Exposed Population:
840000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Dec 2017 00:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Afghanistan= 7.5; Pakistan= 5.7; Tajikistan= 5.1

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000c4n2 Scaled population (vector) 5.89  
  C1 earthquake 1.5  
  C2 earthquake 0.07  
  Country Vulnerability 0.45  
  INFORM_normalised 1.29  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),